| Show F I SHARPS and Ind FLATS Sixteen Valkyrie maidens are IlIe carried by the Savage Opera company this sea sta season son eon to sing the rolex roh H of Ot the eight Val Yol knies in the lust h production of lit tho the Wagner agner lUng opera opet In ill tills this country U li I comes cOle as au a welcome surprise to tho many friends In Salt Sal aIt Lake of ot Henry HenryClay HenryClay HenryClay Clay lara ee that he ho hull hau signet i contract to the star Itar comedian com dlan role In a n new Iet net satirical opera by b on Tracy und Stevens Steens i i I I 1 I I Henry Henr W IV Savages next production will wil be Noahs A rk a musical mu extra extravaganza aganza The fhe he manuscript has been In lit Mr 11 Savages Savage hands for or some time and both words and music were eie written by b Clare Clara Kummer the author of Dearie Deane Egypt and other popular songs As rumor goes Otis Skinner will viii wi aban ahan abandon lIon don His ills Grace of at Grammont as 18 soon as 11 he ho can hind find a satisfactory sat substitute for tor It The play has been no better beter lik uk liked Ik ed Cd In other cities than It was WM as a fet fel weeks ago In Boston Bo ton Few Fe actors of ot Skinners worth are FO io 10 unlucky In their plays s the violinist has haK left lett Lon London London London don on his way to America and he will wi play first In New York at the end of ot this month In Iii December probably he goes to Boston Doston From Irol America he ho goes Ioe on to Australia AustrIa and the English colonies In 10 II the eust lInd Ind two too years will wil have passed before he returns to west western ern era Europe Mr Ir has hall made the announce announcement announcement ment meat that owing to the thc unprecedented demand for seats this season for tor the regular regula nights anti ane matinees of grand I opera It I my m bo be necessary to arrange for extra performances every eer Thursday I evening The Tile question Queston Is I now no reedy receiving recel i ing serious consideration con lera lon at the Metro Metropolitan VellUm politan Opera House An tn American whom hom I we knew a OM as Eleanor Broadfoot whom we wc did not toke too seriously has ripened Into n ii I genuinely notable nota hie 1 I singer In Europe I There she calls cals her herself herself I self Mme Ime CI leros Apparently she hag hal ha the one Oll thing that tha most niost Americans i singers lack lak the quick warmth of or tem teal temperament i that makes m a dramatic singer finger I the tho has revived revive I two or three pieces by b Schumann and S hubert for violin orchA and Ind have hae lain neglected for far years He II will wil play them on OIl Oi his American tour If thu conductors of ot our orchestras will wi give him a change chane e Whon PL no the tIle plan plant M 1st t offered the other tl day da to pO pl Cesar Lesar Symphonic Variation i for tor the first time In America with tho the thoI Philharmonic orchestra In New ew York that very Yer body bol ap op I predate the and In ted that he choose choo e something more familiar familar Max Ta x Is cal 12 years er old cli yet It his hil opus OPUA number luve already reach reah reached ed 86 He ITo Is a and was waa to tn tobare have bare become bool n it hool teacher t clor but hut U t I visit to turned tho the scale In II favor of ot IC Hi Is a devoted stu un student student I dent of lie ll h ha hns already written more variation than n II special 1st In that form wrote during durin his lih career At t pre he It i professor ol of counterpoint harmony hallon uld organ OI ln at atthe atthe the th Royal Horal Academy of ot Mu Ilc lc In Mu Munich tl nich Ilch Sonic Some ole writers writer are tue already alred pro pru proclaiming n claiming him hll an as I the greatest grette t master of t the tUne time others other maintain m that ho he hohas h has hal nothing nothing to fa y and ind says It badly bad 1 Caruso the tenor has h returned toNess to New Ness ew York triumphant after a silent short shot an ati al turin holiday In Italy Ial lIes Has he ho not laid I oft off ot Mesh ordered d nw n II und becoming 1 costumes learned leanell two or O three parts and IIII as ninny many old The new are the tenor t nor parts In Favorita Martha and Ind all al of which Mr Conned to revive at atthe atthe t the Metropolitan Opera Ilou nou o e this win vin winter ter ler The old oM are Faust and und Don DonJose Jose Joae In Carmen Calel In iii II which he lie will 1 ap op appear pear for tor the first timo on n this side Ildo of ot the tho Atlantic But the repertory of at o atthe the th Metropolitan l Is 18 still tl as us 1 far nr as ever from the very err new leI Italian Kallsn operas that he hI craves CrI In lii the tour tOi of at Alice Alco F Zel Jr will 1 lii not ant be bo eon con n cred directly 01 or otherwise Mr Ir has bias hal dropped erel out Olt of M the enterprise and IMe Ipe has hlll dropped further In desire de lre tu t ti withdraw from tool tIle the venture was WIS coin with his hil to abroad the rest of ot this season It I was wa lie he who lir t the tue singer el to undertake he tin an 11 4 American I I tour nod Ind he h ht did dil this with wih the Intention of commit committo to tn America und and conducting the th In ill II person ith nu Il play ph la for Anna command the chief Incentive Held Hlll at l his tin lye tot for leaving heaving France vanished Ne Negotiation for 01 the I sale of o his hi share In Inthe intile tile the tl project were close cl I by h cable coble Speaking of the familiar tunes of other musical comedies though there therO therea is a tt 1 rather familiar story to I going tile the tle rounds which seems to point to the tho poi Heulon by Mr r de do Koven Koen of at I t leant beast moderate rate powers for fOI oi other mens tune tun A well ivell wel known musician whose rhose wife wl Is I not as lI conversant siri the tho work wole ork of ot modern modem as Its lS Is he had taken his hi companion for life le leto to the t opera The rue firt half of ot the bill hi was wan which In thu tiit course of a 1 few Cow f moments struck the thu lady lol as familiar George G said Mid she finally InI leaning over ocr whispering huskily In her hus hue husbands bands eat ear Georgel el Reginald de do Koven write that The husband waited for his hil wife t ti regain her lIen up UI upright right position when he leaned In her direction and replied In n a sorrowful tone No 0 Sana rh At least lea t not yet et There Thero won n 11 time In the days daf of Theodore tl Thomas and Anton Alton Sel l when American hail had hlll a ti chance to hear hoar novelties often before they hearth heard In itt II Europe l Today oda wo ve lag la far behind hehl New Neit ew York to be he heure WI I sure ure was wa the first t to hear Richard Ichard Domestic I Symphony but ut Strauss s that thal was an exception which merely ler ly emphasized al the rule Here Is Max Re Reper H HIer Reger who Is 1 n ii composer per ger for or Instance In 1 Ier being played sung and discussed helm deal In Germany whereas we greit a ft hive have a hardly tm tin opportunity to be conn with Ith oilY any an of his hla hl works Two w articled O by b Ernest Newman and Frederick H i tar tir to In the November Musician Boston will wi help hell I n n n n n nto to direct the attention of o singers Indeed It I looks 1001 R as If I he It were players to this man lilon n nn whose throw Strauss t Into the background already become a great buit bOI of oC conas con a casus ca u DP HI |
